Ant Control on a Golf Course Fairway, 1996

Abstract

An irrigated bentgrass section of the ninth fairway at Shadow Ridge Golf Course in Ionia, MI was divided into forty eight 12 X 12 ft plots with a 3 ft walkway between them. Each treatment was replicated 6 times. The treatments were applied on 12 Jun and 9 Jul with a CO2 powered R&D backpack boom sprayer at 175 gal finished spray/acre at 50 psi with four 8008 nozzles. Evaluations were made on 12 Jun, 20 Jun, 26 Jun, 2 Jul, 9 Jul, 19 Jul, and 25 Jul by counting active ant mounds in each plot.